Move products through named stages Nothing ships before it’s ready.

Workflows are guided, multi-stage processes that help a team work through products step by step, like a checklist with stages and tasks. Automations are trigger-based actions that run in the background with nobody watching. Workflows are for work people do; automations are for work nobody should have to do.

Yes. Create as many stages as your process has, each with its own name, filter criteria and task presets. Products move through stages as they meet the criteria, so the stage counts are a live read of where the catalog is rather than a board someone has to maintain.

Task presets are pre-configured actions applied at a stage: enrich descriptions, check the quality score, translate content, assign categories. You define a task once and reuse it on every stage that needs it, which is also what keeps two stages from doing the same thing slightly differently.

There are three levels. The pre-filter decides which products enter the workflow at all, stage filters decide which products belong in each stage, and task filters decide which products a specific task applies to. Each level narrows the set, so a task never lands on a product it was not meant for.

Yes. Disabling a workflow pauses it without losing progress, and re-enabling it picks up where it stopped: products stay in their current stage with their tasks intact. What pausing does not do is roll anything back, so work already applied to a product stays applied.